A man was shot and killed after getting out of his car to arrive for work Thursday morning on the city’s South Side.
Authorities say 38-year-old Elijah Murphy had just exited his vehicle outside Bea’s Best City Foods in the 4200 block of South Racine around 5 a.m. when at least two men who were waiting across the street opened fire.
One of Murphy’s coworkers, Mark Flournoy, told NBC 5 he was inside the Back of the Yards neighborhood warehouse at the time.
“I heard several shots fired,” Flournoy said. “I look to my right, and he was laying on the floor, dead.”
Murphy was struck multiple times in the head and body by the gunfire and pronounced dead on the scene, police said. The offenders then drove off, according to police.
Police said Murphy’s 20-year-old pregnant daughter was also in the car, but she was uninjured.
“I couldn’t look at him, because it could have brought tears to my eyes,” said another coworker, Frank Ivory, who was also on the job at the time. “So I walked away and tried to talk to his daughter the best that I could.”
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Management at Bea’s Best City Foods said Murphy worked at the meat packing facility at 43rd and Racine for nearly six years before he was killed.
Grieving employees on the scene described him as a father of four who loved his family and was trying to turn his life around.
Chicago police say they have no prior record for Murphy.
No one is in custody as police investigate the fatal shooting.
